Yearly Archive for 2009

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Tweet & Win!

Published on September 17, 2009 in Annoucments, Misc, twitter and Web site promotion.

You may win a free ad spot on my right sidebar. All you have to do is to make a tweet containing my blog url "http://www.kreci.net" (without using shortening url services). I will search and choose one random (or most creative) tweet every month and give you free banner spot for 1 month! You may put any graphic or text ad up to 125x125px (without offensive or adult content).

Additionally this ad will be "Do Follow" for search engine! My site is very well indexed in google so I am sure you will benefit from it. You may click Tweet & WIN link on my right sidebar to make a tweet (use my default or make any other - be creative - just make sure that it will contain my blog URL). Good Luck!

Update: This offer is no longer valid. Follow me as I will offer a new promo soon.

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How to make people click ads on your blog?

Published on September 8, 2009 in Misc and Web site promotion.

Even if you have really big traffic on your site it does not mean that you will get tons of clicks to your ads (google adsense or any other). You may believe me or not but there are a few ways you may increase clicks to your ads without breaking any ad program rules... Some people just put ads anywhere on their site and are waiting for a huge revenue. But it does not work this way. You need to know what are you doing or you will have to learn it from your own mistakes and loose a lot of time.

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Top 10 Articles About Blog Promotion You Should Read

Published on September 4, 2009 in Misc and Web site promotion.

How to promote my blog? How to get more traffic? What should I do to get more readers? I am sure that you ask this questions to yourself all the time. Probably it's the reason why you are reading my post. There are tons of articles about it in the Internet and I have chosen top 10 that are really worth reading.

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How to make WordPress “Page” link to any url

Published on September 1, 2009 in Blog Maintenance, Misc and Web development.

Today I have been looking for solution for making one of my "page" links linking to category of posts for one of my WordPress projects. I have found a few tips about putting "href" tags in description etc. But it have broken my layout.

Then I have found great WordPress plugin called "Page Links To" that would let you put any URL instead of your real page content (even external!). When you install it you get additional field in your Add New Page section where you can put your url. For me it works like a charm!

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Problem with 404 error on /wp-admin/ in WordPress

Published on September 1, 2009 in Blog Maintenance, Misc and Web development.

I have just been moving my blog to new host. Everything was fine after I did it as described at WordPress Codex except admin panel.

When I was trying to login to Dashboard I got 404 error. There is one very simple solution for it. When I was moving files from my old host my ftp client set chmod of /wp-admin/ directory to 775. It won't work with this permission. All you need to do is to change it to 755 and it should be working again.

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MySQL login details in WordPress

Published on September 1, 2009 in Blog Maintenance, Misc and Web development.

If you have decided to move a copy of your wordpress to other host propably you will have problem with your mysql login details. Even if mysql database name, login and password are same - propably you will have to change login host (until it is not localhost :) ). It is very easy to do. All you need to change after you copy WordPress script to your new account is to edit wp-config.php file. Open it in any text editor (Notepad would be ok), find and edit following lines:

define('DB_NAME', 'put_db_name_here');
define('DB_USER', 'put_db_login_here');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'put_db_password_here');
define('DB_HOST', 'put_mysql_host_here');

And that's all :)

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URL Shortening Script

Published on August 25, 2009 in Annoucments, Blogfolio and Software by KreCi.

Here is a demo of my url shortening script. It let your visitors to make short redirections of their very long url's (for example it is useful for twitter users where they are limited to 140 characters). Script is made to be as simple as possible. HTML is separated from PHP so it may be customized by editing one HTML file without touching any PHP code! It do not need MySQL database - all data is stored in the file system. Users are redirected by .htaccess file to desired shortcut. Additionally there is administrator backend module to manage (edit/add/delete) url shortcuts. Below you may click for demo installed on my dev server.

Url shortening script frontend

Frontend demo

Url shortening script backend

Backend demo (Login: admin, Password: demo999)

You may get a copy of this script for $30 (installation included) - contact me if interested.

Update: Free version of this script have been released. Click here for more details.

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Web hosting review website

Published on July 30, 2009 in Annoucments, Blogfolio and Websites by KreCi.

My last project have just been launched. It is Web Hosting Reviews website based on customized WordPress and K2 theme. Below you may see front page screenshot. Click it to visit working site.

Web Hosting Reviews

Web Hosting Reviews

There is a lot of customization in PHP, the design and a few customized free plugins just to make it work a desired way. Site presents web hosting companies and let's visitors to write a review, make a star rating and choose best web hosting offer by reading real users opinions.

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WordPress K2 theme and problem with comments (solution)

Published on July 13, 2009 in Blog Maintenance, Misc and Web development.

Since I have upgraded a WordPress to version 2.8 I have seen new comments counted by Akismet plugin but nothing in spam queue nor any comments to approve. It looked very strange for me!

I have logged out from my blog admin and tried to post a comment. After submitting it I saw a blank page!

The worst thing was that I have not found any solutions in google (and people say that google always knows the answer :)) - so I decided to upgrade K2 Theme... But there is now new release on their main page!

But wait! There is a solution! (or I would not write this post :)) After some googling (ok... please forget what I wrote about google before... :D) I have found K2 nightly build subpage... All you need to do to fix this issue is to upgrade K2 with nightly build. It can be downloaded from: http://getk2.com/nightly/.

I have decided to download last RC8 version (k2-1.0-RC8-revision-807-2009-07-13.zip). And now you can test if comments are working again :)

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PROFTPD virtual user – quick howto

Published on July 6, 2009 in Linux and Misc.

It was boring to look for it in PROFTPD docs - but I could not find quick FAQ, so I had no choice. Anyway I decided to write it for others who need quick tip. Here are 4 simple steps to create virtual user account.
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